Here’s the quickest recap of our first week of school! Here are some highlights, along with links to other posts that explain them in more detail. Click on each image to learn more!

Book Tasting: We hosted our very first book tasting of the year! I originally started doing this ten years ago and used resources from Joanne at Head Over Heals for Teaching. I changed it up a bit this year, and I added my resources to my novel study bundle!

What’s the Point of Math? I can already tell this book is going to be on repeat in my classroom this year. It’s FULL of such fun math connections. I wanted students to start the year exploring it, so I selected a few pages that dive into other math “languages.” It was a blast.
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Objectives Microphone: I wasn’t sure if kids would love this or think it was silly, but I can confirm they’re obsessed.
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Six Hat Thinking with The Week Junior: I usually start Six Hat Thinking with a fiction book, but this year I did a nonfiction article, and it was AWESOME!

Skill of the Day: Every student is going to have some skill gaps coming back into the school year. I’m starting the year by addressing them with this spiral review!
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Flip 7 Math Game: This game is AMAZING for mental math, computation, and probability. I taught it to my 4th and 5th graders, and I am pretty sure they’ll never stop begging to play.
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Click HERE for a full post on how I’m using these!
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Brain Buffet: I can’t believe how much I am LOVING their Brain Buffet thinking! This week we focused on using information to generate thoughtful questions. We also generated mind maps, which were super fun!
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Human-Sized Tapple and Scrabble: Click HERE for a big post about how I use this!